Hello Richard,
This is a curiosity more than anything else.

I have a DB that I have created and I wanted to have an unbound box display the number of records in that DB.

This is the name of the box in the properties of the box: txtCount.
This is the control code for the box: =Count(*)

Doing this makes the DB unusable for some reason. it won't even let me go into safe mode to try to fix it. I tried it twice, both ending up with the same result.

Thank goodness for my back up!

What did I do Wrong?
Not having that control in the DB works just fine.

Thank you!